Latest Shootings Stir Celebrity and 2020 Candidates’ Outrage: ‘WTF Is Wrong With Us?’

Sadness and outrage is being expressed by celebrities and 2020 presidential candidates across social media over the latest shootings in America, as well as a renewed demand for gun control legislation to be passed by Congress. “We are a broken nation trapped in the darkness of our unwillingness to ask ourselves why this keeps happening,” tweeted actor Josh Gad, one of the many voices speaking out on Saturday and Sunday. At least 29 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the past 24 hours in shootings at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and mall, and at a bar in Dayton, Ohio. That comes after a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California that killed three people last week. Actress Julianne Moore said that her “outrage is exhausted” after the Dayton shooting, while singer John Legend called on officials to “take these weapons of war off the street and fight the evil ideology of white nationalism that motivates many of these terrorists.” My heart breaks for the city of El Paso. The madness never ends. It is all too much. There‘a nowhere safe from the terror of gun violence in the United States of America. We are a...